Dropdown menus stop working after 3 times

[rocketmonkeys]

I had this issue on Sublime Text 3, just updated to v 4 and it still happens.

Windows 10
Sublime Text 4 build 4107

Steps

• Start sublime text
• Click on the dropdown menu icon (the 3 lines next to the app icon)
• The dropdown menu shows (File, Edit, etc)
• Click anywhere else to hide the menu
• Repeat the last 2 steps 2 more times
• After the third time, the menu stops showing up.

At this point there are a ton of things that just stop working:

• Dropdown menu won’t show up any more
• Can’t create new windows (Control+Shift+N)
• If you close a modified file, it will beep but will not show you the “Save changes” dialog… it’ll just close without prompting to save, losing any changes
• Can’t open a new project from explorer
• Etc

The only fix is to close all sublime text and reopen…then just not use the menus more than 3x.

Are there other debug steps I can take? Logs to view?

[OdatNurd]

Does the same thing also happen in Safe Mode? I cant replicate that issue on my Windows 10 machine here.

[rocketmonkeys]

Ah, no.

First - turns out I was on ST4. What?!?! Another victim of the auto-upgrade major version issue.

The problem appears to be Adaptive theme on ST4. I had adaptive on ST3, it had normal menus. However, same theme on ST4 has mobile-style hamburger style menus, which have this bug. See GIF attached. (Note at the end that I close a modified file, it beeps and then closes it without save-as dialog, losing all changes. I have hot-exit=false).

If I switch theme to “Dark”, I get normal menus and no more bug.

[OdatNurd]

In that case you probably want to set themed_title_bar to false in your settings, which tells the Adaptive theme that you don’t want the hamburger menu.